Photo player Identification help

[repsher]

Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

This is the closest I can come to a shot of Ott from that angle (this one circa 1938), but I don't see any reason to doubt the ID on the back of the photo. I'm assuming you had eliminated him as a possibility based on the date?

Well that and the fact that the back seems to be scribbled out. Plus, I didn't think it looked much like him. But with the photo you've posted it does look most likely like it his him. Great news since I picked the photo up for around $15.

Thanks.

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by repsher

Well that and the fact that the back seems to be scribbled out. Plus, I didn't think it looked much like him. But with the photo you've posted it does look most likely like it his him. Great news since I picked the photo up for around $15.

Thanks.

The scribbling seems to be done to the entire back of the photo, not just Ott's name, so I don't think it was meant to ex him out as the identified subject of the photo. I'm not sure why the entire back of the photo would be shaded like that, but that's my take on it.

I would do the ear check to confirm, except that I'm awful at it and wouldn't want to mislead. Perhaps if you were to post a larger cropping of just his head though someone else can confirm.